Monday, September 22, 2014
POP DOES OPERAÂ BIG, INTIMATELY Under Artistic Director Josh Shaw's hands-on guidance, Pacific Opera Project has become L.A.'s most exciting new opera company. In just three years since PO…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2014
HERE'S CHARLEY This Sunday, September 21, Musical Theatre West will begin the Reiner Staged Reading Series fifth anniversary season with a one-time only performance of Where’s Charley?…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2014
STRANGE BUT WATCHABLE BEHAVIOR Let's see if I got this right. A tongue-in-cheek bio-musical and pseudo-adventure tale about John Broadus Watson"wannabe preacher-turned-behavioral scientist-t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2014
MORE D'OH THAN WOO-HOO The intelligent minds behind The Simpsons already had over 51,000 spectators (over three nights) in the palms of their collective hands before they sat down to write T…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 14, 2014
ALBEE SEEING YOU AT THE RENBERG On the surface, Edward Albee's The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia? is about a middle-aged architect, Martin, who has a zoophilic love affair that threatens to destroy…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 13, 2014
INTO THE FOLD Recently divorced, and abandoned by her beloved three-legged dog, well-respected origami artist Ilana has fortified herself in her studio. Surrounded by paper, Chinese take-out…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:35PM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2014
A FLAT-FOOTED RACE In April 2014, lawyer and LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling was banned from the NBA for life and fined $2.5 million by the league after private recordings of him making ra…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2014
THE PERFECT COCK Whether breeding chickens or designing your kitchen with rooster tchotchkes, it can be challenging to find the perfect cock. But if you look to the theater, your search for …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 7, 2014
NOT AS TRYING AS IT COULD HAVE BEEN A slight bio-drama is given heft by larger-than-life performances in this latest outing from International City Theatre in Long Beach. Trying is based on …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 6, 2014
ONE IN A MILLION Rabid theatergoers who often attend plays are akin to miners panning for gold: The drudgery and disappointment from months of discovering rocks is dissipated when a precious…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2014
I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE OF LOS ANGELES BALLET Along with the film industry, one of Los Angeles' greatest entertainment assets is music. While theater, dance, opera, and other mediums continua…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2014
ALLEY HIGH There are many reasons why some previously produced Broadway musicals are rarely performed: The sheer size of the show makes it prohibitively expensive (The Most Happy Fella, 1956…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2014
SOUR CHERRIES It's been 110 years since The Cherry Orchard premiered. While Chekhov insisted that his play about the fall of Russian aristocracy"and the fallout from the abolition of serfdom…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:06PM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2014
FLAMENCO FEVER AT THE FORD AMPHITHEATRE Last year, after the thrilling, fiery, and passionate flamenco dancer Manuel Gutiérrez displayed a crackling tap and pedal pyrotechnics the likes of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:17AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 2, 2014
EVEN WHEN A GENERATION CAN'T HOLD UP, ITS HAIR CAN When Diane Paulus' revival of Hair swooshed into the Pantages in 2012, it felt more like a cause for nostalgic partying than a recreation o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:58PM[SHARE]Friday, August 1, 2014
THE PAGEANT OF THE MASTERS IS ON THE CASE On March 18, 1990, two young men dressed as Boston police officers walked unchallenged into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Some 81 minutes lat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 30, 2014
ETHER IS NEITHER/NOR A dramaturgical mess, Elizabeth Egloff's strangely shapeless historical drama about the mid-19th-century advent of ether as an anesthesia contains a fascinating story bu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:35PM[SHARE]FINDING NEW MOMENTS IN THE WOODS I wondered at the intermission of Fiasco Theater's production of Into the Woods why they hadn't cast amazing singers. Up to this point, the ten-member ensemb…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 29, 2014
FOUR PLAY The setting for Ronald Harwood’s 1999 play is a retirement home in England for former opera singers. Three of the residents,  Reginald, Cecily, and Wilfred, try to pers…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:59PM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2014
FATHERS AND SONS The sensitive, expressive, and pensive son. The emotionally cool, impatient, and badgering father. Together, this family dynamic seen throughout history is so familiar that …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:15AM[SHARE]L.A.'S BIGGEST FAN It surprises me that Lady Windermere's Fan isn't produced as frequently as the ubiquitous The Importance of Being Earnest. Beginning Friday, Chalk Rep is remounting las…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2014
WE WILL SCHLOCK YOU A huge West End hit for twelve years (just closing last May), this awful compilation jukebox musical does for Queen what Mamma Mia! did for ABBA, Buddy for Buddy Holly an…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:12AM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2014
I DREAM’D A DREAM TO-NIGHT The National Ballet of Canada (TNBC), which presented its thrilling rendition of Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at the Dorothy Chand…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:40PM[SHARE]Monday, July 7, 2014
A HOT AUGUST CAST Having witnessed many Broadway hits at the beginning and end of their runs (and the touring companies they spawned), it is fair for me to say that the magic and crackling e…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:25PM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2014
EXPECT NO ERRORS IN THIS COMEDY One of Shakespeare's earliest plays, The Comedy of Errors is also his shortest and most farcical. In fact, while scholars argue over the classification of oth…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2014
DARK SUBJECT MATTER LEAVES US IN THE DARK Inspired by Theater of the Absurd, Cuban expatriate MarÃa Irene Fornés (b. 1930) cut her teeth during the Off-Off-Broadway avant-garde movement.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2014
DELIVERING THE GOODS WITH INTO THE WOODS Somewhere between "Once Upon a Time" and "Happily Ever After" there is a very adult world of tests, losses, disappointments, and grief. Despite this,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:01PM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2014
I HAVE A LOVE Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony have just released a live recording of the first ever complete concert performances of West Side Story. I wanted …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:46PM[SHARE]MEGALOMANIA WAS NEVER SO MUCH FUN Move over Evita, there's another Queen of Hearts in town. And she likes diamonds too. I'm talking about Imelda Marcos"she of the thousand pairs of shoes"who…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:28PM[SHARE]CAVE-IN The press release refers to The Cave as being inspired by Beauty and the Beast and Persephone. In Greek mythology, Persephone was abducted by Hades, the god-king of the Underworld. B…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 19, 2014
A WORLD APART FROM TYPICAL FRINGE FARE Like a breath of fresh air, Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World far exceeded my expectations of both the Fringe and Brown's uneven song cycle. T…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:38PM[SHARE] 
